This author brings a unique perspective, merging technical expertise with a passion for lunar exploration. With a deep understanding of engineering honed through a career in communications and a key role in the Apollo lunar landing program, the author applies this expertise to uncovering the Moon's mysteries. Their work with digitized Lunar Orbiter images demonstrates a skill for enhancing and making historical material accessible to a modern audience. Ongoing research into the Moon's far side promises further fascinating discoveries.
Exploring Mars by Rover
The Mars Curiosity Rover serves as a sophisticated mobile lab, enhancing our understanding of Mars' geology and potential habitability. This book chronicles its journey, featuring vivid images and insights into the Martian landscape, while also detailing the challenges faced by the rover and its scientific team.
Images and Topographic Maps from LRO, GRAIL, and Kaguya
Additionally, the features are presented in the estimated chronological sequence of their creation, based on a consideration of stratigraphy (overlapping layers from neighboring features) and the relative degradation of surface features.
Since Luna and Lunar Orbiter photographed the far side of the Moon, the mysterious dichotomy between the face of the Moon as we see it from Earth and the side of the Moon that is hidden has puzzled lunar scientists. As we learned more from the Apollo sample return missions and later robotic satellites, the puzzle literally deepened, showing asymmetry of the crust and mantle, all the way to the core of the Moon. This book summarizes the author’s successful search for an ancient impact feature, the Near Side Megabasin of the Moon and the extensions to impact theory needed to find it. The implications of this ancient event are developed to answer many of the questions about the history of the Moon.
The far side of the Moon, also called the "dark side of the Moon" was unknown to humanity until the Luna and Lunar Orbiter pictures were returned to Earth. This wonderful book contains beautiful photographs and newly-assembled mosaic images of the far side of the Moon, cleaned of transmission, imaging stripes and processing artifacts by today’s computer technology. Byrne’s superb analysis documents the appearance of the features of the far side with beautiful pictures from Lunar Orbiter. Until now, the far side Lunar Orbiter photos have only been available with strong reconstruction lines, but appear here for the first time as complete photographs, unmarred by imaging and processing artifacts.